Product Description: The history of childrenâs literature is a growing area of study; this group of essays brings together innovative, scholarly voices to explore the fascinating tales behind many beloved books. The publication mines the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Childrenâs Literature, one of the worldâs richest sources for original books, manuscripts, and artwork...read more

9780300218459 | Beinecke Rare Book &, November 15, 2016, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The history of childrenâs literature is a growing area of study; this group of essays brings together innovative, scholarly voices to explore the fascinating tales behind many beloved books.

Product Description: Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author best known for writing children's stories including "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling." But he didn't just write short stories, and his intended audience wasn't restricted to children...read more

Product Description: Description Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain...read more

9781463895211 | Aegypan, September 30, 2011, cover price $29.95 | also contains The Yellow Fairy Book | About this edition: As to whether there are really any fairies or not, that is a difficult question.

9781437824506 | Indypublish.Com, June 30, 2008, cover price $98.99 | also contains The Yellow Fairy Book | About this edition: The Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book.

9780670793853 | Revised edition (Viking Pr, September 1, 1980), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of fairy stories, the fourth in the famous series, illustrated with black-and-white line drawings, adds to a primary source of fantasy and enchantment

9780471020431, titled "Copper Alloys to Distillations" | 3 edition (Wiley-Interscience, September 1, 1979), cover price $360.00 | also contains Copper Alloys to Distillations, The Yellow Fairy Book | About this edition: Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology The Third Edition of the Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology is built on the solid foundation of the previous editions.

9781517455200 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 22, 2015, cover price $14.99 | also contains The Yellow Fairy Book | About this edition: The Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book.

9781517297879 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 14, 2015, cover price $12.99 | also contains The Yellow Fairy Book | About this edition: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.

9781517061616 | Createspace Independent Pub, August 27, 2015, cover price $6.99 | also contains The Yellow Fairy Book | About this edition: The Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book.

9781515091301 | Createspace Independent Pub, July 16, 2015, cover price $15.99 | also contains The Yellow Fairy Book | About this edition: The Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book.

Product Description: When was it that someone decided that books might be written and published for child readers? It's fair to say that some kinds of text-alphabets, fables, the Lord's Prayer, may have been seen as fundamental to the process of learning to read from the beginning of book making, but when did children come to be seen as a readership for whom special provision should be made? The child as the audience for books in the English language is the subject of this bibliographical study, which had its origins in an exhibition held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York...read more

Product Description: First Edition When Edward Ardizzone passed away in 1979, he was one of the best-loved artists (and authors)in the English speaking world. He illustrated more than 200 books and pamphlets, a good number of which he also wrote, as well as designed dust jackets and ephemera for a range of patrons...read more

9781584561033 | Oak Knoll Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: First Edition When Edward Ardizzone passed away in 1979, he was one of the best-loved artists (and authors)in the English speaking world.

Product Description: First edition. In 1787, William Darton began engraving and printing children's books. Over the next 60 years, his firm printed over 1,000 books for young people. In 1804, a separate firm of Darton was founded by William's oldest son...read more

9780763604943 | Candlewick Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: When a poor farmer grows a gigantic turnip and the king pays him handsomely for it, the envious town squire tries to get an even bigger reward for one of his horses.

Product Description: With literature as his central theme, the author of this history of children's books in England also wove in biography and facts of social and commercial history. This edition has additional biographical notes, a supplementary chapter on the late Victorian and Edwardian eras and 60 illustrations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

9781884718885 | 3 edition (Oak Knoll Pr, July 1, 1999), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: With literature as his central theme, the author of this history of children's books in England also wove in biography and facts of social and commercial history.

9780521240208 | 3 sub edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 1, 1982), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: With literature as his central theme, the author of this history of children's books in England also wove in biography and facts of social and commercial history.

'In the Rain with Baby Duck' and 'Cuddly Dudley' are two of the fun-filled, read-aloud stories provided in a colorful compilation of children's tales that features delightful works from Helen Oxenbury, Martin Waddell, Anita Jeram, and other notable writers.

Product Description: A comprehensive volume on the famous childrenÃ¯Â¿Â½s-book illustratorÃ¯Â¿Â½s works. With work from his early days as a comic-book illustrator to the Caldecott Award-winning A Snowy Day, and including his many other graphic and book-illustration work, this book stands as a superb companion to AldersonÃ¯Â¿Â½s first volume...read more

A timeless anthology of twenty-three of Sheherezade's entertaining tales includes such favorites as 'Aladdin,' 'Sindbad the Sailor,' and 'Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves,' in a gift edition complemented by more than 120 sumptuous watercolor paintings.

Product Description: This survey covers virtually every aspect of childhood and every type of book, toy, game and diversion. Over a period of 40 years, Iona and Peter Opie assembled a collection of 20,000 rare children's books, comics and other printed material...read more

9781559700474, titled "Treasures of Childhood: Books, Toys, and Games from the Opie Collection" | 1 edition (Arcade Pub, March 1, 1990), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Examines the Opie Collection of rare books, toys, and games

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9781857936247 | Reprint edition (Pavilion, April 1, 1995), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This survey covers virtually every aspect of childhood and every type of book, toy, game and diversion.

9781565540064 | Pelican Pub Co Inc, September 1, 1994, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Traces the personal and professional life of the children's books illustrator, discussing his childhood in Brooklyn, his early career painting murals for the WPA, and his bouts with depression

9780688068998 | William Morrow & Co, March 1, 1990, cover price $5.98 | About this edition: An illustrated collection of approximately sixty nursery rhymes, including a mixture of popular and lesser known rhymes.

Product Description: To commemorate the centenary of the death of the artist and illustrator Randolph Caldecott, Brian Alderson, noted historian of children's literature and children's book editor of The Times, has prepared for the British Library an exhibition designed to pay tribute to Caldecott's skills as a creator of picture books, which will run from October 1986...read more

9780521331791 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $44.95 | also contains The Canning Kitchen: 101 Simple Small Batch Recipes | About this edition: To commemorate the centenary of the death of the artist and illustrator Randolph Caldecott, Brian Alderson, noted historian of children's literature and children's book editor of The Times, has prepared for the British Library an exhibition designed to pay tribute to Caldecott's skills as a creator of picture books, which will run from October 1986.